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TV
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley. Screenplay by Louis Pelletier. Directed by Sherman Marks. Starring Bert Lahr as Mr. O’Malley and Ronny Howard as Barnaby. Mel Blanc provided McSnoyd’s voice. CBS, 20 December 1959.
Harold and the Purple Crayon. Narrated by Sharon Stone. HBO Family Channel, 2001–2.
FILMSTRIPS
Harold and the Purple Crayon. Weston Woods Studios, 1963.
A Picture for Harold’s Room. Weston Woods Studios, 1972.
The Frowning Prince. H. M. Stone Productions, 1972.
Harold’s Fairy Tale. Weston Woods Studios, 1974.
PAINTINGS
Eighty Crockett Johnson paintings can be viewed on the Smithsonian Institution’s Mathematical Paintings of Crockett Johnson website: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/group_detail.cfm?key=1253&gkey=192&page=1. Those in the Smithsonian’s collection are denoted by number on the Smithsonian Institution’s website (SIW) and series number (SI). Another dozen or so are available at http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/purple/art.html; these works are labeled CJHP. Others are in private collections. Sizes rounded off to the nearest quarter inch.
Aligned Triangles (Desargues). 25¼” x 48¾”. 1970. SIW#1, SI#63.
Aligned Triangles and Projections. 32” x 32”. 1968.
Alignment of Intersecting Traces (Desargues, 1593–1662). 1966.
Approximation of Pi to 0.0001. 24” x 32½” 1970–75. SIW#75, SI#101.
Archimedes Transversal. 32¾” x 32¾”. ca. 1974. SIW#2, SI#104.
Area and Perimeter of a Squared Circle. 24” x 24”. 1970–75. SIW#3, SI#95.
Area Measurement of a Parabola (Archimedes, 3rd c BC). 48” x 48”. ca. 1967.
Biblical Squared Circles. 25¼” x 25¼”. ca. 1972. SIW#4, SI#92.
Bouquet of Equal Areas. 48” x 48”. n.d.
Bouquet of Triangle Theorems (Euclid, 4th c BC). 33” x 27”. 1966. SIW#5, SI#26.
Calculus. 49” x 49”. 1966.
Centers of Similitude (La Hire, 1640–1718). 33” x 22½”. 1966. SIW#76, SI#14.
Collineation of Perpendiculars (Simson, 1687–1768). 48” x 42”. ca. 1967.
Conic Curve (Appolonius, 3rd c BC). 33¼” x 29¼”. 1966. SIW#6, SI#11.
A Construction for the Heptagon (Neusis II). 48” x 42”. 1970–75. CJHP.
Construction of a Heptagon. 49¼” x 27¼”. ca. 1975. SIW#7, SI#115.
Construction of Heptagon. 49” x 43”. ca. 1975. SIW#8, SI#117.
Construction of Heptagon. 33” x 33”. 1973. SIW#77, SI#116.
Construction of the Heptagon. 48½” x 42¼”. 1975. SIW#9, SI#108.
Cross-Ratio (Poncelet, 1788–1867). 48” x 42”. ca. 1967.
Cross-Ratio in a Conic (Poncelet). 33¼” x 48¾”. SIW#11, SI#21.
Cross-Ratio in an Ellipse (Poncelet). 31” x 25½”. SIW#10, SI#69.
Cube Doubled in Volume. 25” x 25”. n.d.
Curve Tangents (Fermat, 1601–1665). 19” x 25”. 1966. SIW#12, SI#12.
Division of a Square by Conic Rectangles. 33” x 33”. 1970.
Division of the Square by Conic Rectangles. 25” x 25”. 1970. SIW#13, SI#60.
Division of a One-by-Two Rectangle by Conic Rectangles. 41” x 24”. 1970. CJHP.
Doubled Cube (Newton). 25¼” x 25¼”. ca. 1970. SIW#14, SI#85.
Duality (Pascal-Brianchon). 25½” x 25½”. 1966. SIW#15, SI#81.
Euclidian Values of a Squared Circle. 48¼” x 32¼”. ca. 1970. SIW#18, SI#102.
Equal Areas, Their Triangular Square Root, and Pi. 48” x 47½”. 1970–75. SIW#16, SI#90.
Equal Triangles. 28¼” x 25¼”. 1972. SIW#17, SI#86.
Equation (Descartes, 1596–1650). 17” x 32”. ca. 1967.
Equation Roots in Complex Numbers (Gauss, 1777–1855). 48” x 48”. ca. 1967.
Every Positive Integer (Gauss, 1777–1855). 10” x 32½”. 1966. SIW#19, SI#29.
Fluxions (Newton). 47¾” x 47¼”. 1966. SIW#20, SI#20.
Fluxions, or the Differential Calculus (Newton, 1642–1727). 48” x 49”. ca. 1967.
Fraction of Pi (to .0000003 …) in a Square of One (Construction of the 113:355 Ratio of Tsu
Chung Chih, 500 AD). 23½” x 23½”. CJHP.
Geometric Mean (Archytas). 15” x 24”. 1968. SIW#21, SI#65.
Geometric Mean (Pythagoras). n.d.
Geometry of a Triple Bubble (Plateau, 1801–1883). 29” x 24¾”. 1966. SIW#22, SI#23.
Golden Rectangle (Pythagoras). 25” x 25”. 1968. SIW#23, SI#46.
Golden Rectangle (Pythagoras). 36” x 26½”. 1970. SIW#24, SI#64.
Harmonic Series from a Quadrilateral (Pappus, 3rd c AD). 33” x 48¾”. 1966. SIW#25, SI#24.
Heptagon 1:3:3 Triangle. 30¼” x 16¼”. ca. 1973. SIW#26, SI#105.
Heptagon from Its Seven Sides. 23¼” x 16¼”. 1973. SIW#27, SI#107.
Heptagon from Its Seven Sides. 23¾” x 16”. 1973. CJHP.
Heptagon from Ten Equal Lines. 49¼” x 49¼”. 1973. SIW#28, SI#109.
Heptagon 1:3:3 Triangle. 30¼” x 16¼”. ca. 1973. SIW#26, SI#105.
Heptagon Stated by Seven Toothpicks. 26½” x 16¼”. 1973. SIW#29, SI#106.
Hippias’ Curve. 32¾” x 32¾”. 1973. SIW#78, SI#114.
Homethic Triangles (Hippocrates of Chios, 5th c BC). 25½” x 17¼”. 1966. SIW#30, SI#17.
Law of Drifting Velocities. 21” x 25”. 1967. SIW#32, SI#99.
Law of Motion (Galileo). 24½” x 24½”. 1970. SIW#31, SI#71.
Law of Orbiting Velocity (Kepler). 28¼” x 35¾”. 1966. SIW#79, SI#76.
Law of Orbiting Velocity (Kepler, 1571–1630). 32” x 40”. 1965. SIW#33, SI#22.
Locus of Point on Chord (Plato). 25” x 25”. 1966. SIW#34, SI#41.
Locus of the Midpoint of a Chord (Plato 4th c BC). 24” x 24”. ca. 1967.
Logarithms (Napier, 1550–1617). 22” x 26”. 1966. SIW#35, SI#37.
Measurement of the Earth (Eratosthenes, 3rd c BC). 30” x 25½”. 1966. SIW#36, SI#15.
Momentum of the Pendulum (Galileo, 1564–1642). ca. 1967.
Morley Triangle. 24” x 25¼”. 1969. SIW#37, SI#74.
Multiplication through Imaginary Numbers (Gauss). 49½” x 49½”. 1967. SIW#38, SI#40.
The “Mystic” Hexagon (Pascal, 1623–1662). 49” x 25”. 1965. SIW#39, SI#10.
Nine-Point Circle (Euler). 24¾” x 41”. 1970. SIW#40, SI#75.
Numbers in a Spiral. 32¼” x 33½”. ca. 1965. SIW#41, SI#77.
One Surface and One Edge (Möbius). 25½” x 25½”. 1965. SIW#42, SI#34.
One to One Hundred in a Spiral. ca. 1967.
Parabolic Triangles (Archimedes). 30” x 24”. 1967. SIW#44, SI#78.
Parabolic Triangles (Archimedes). 49” x 25”. 1969. SIW#43, SI#43
Paradox of One Surface and One Edge (Moebius, 1790–1868). 24” x 24”. ca. 1967.
Pencil of Ratios (Monge, 1746–1818). 23¾” x 24”. 1966. SIW#45, SI#18.
Pendulum Momentum (Galileo). 36½” x 49¼”. 1966. SIW#46, SI#13.
Perspective (Alberti, 1404–1472). 25” x 30¼”. 1966. SIW#47, SI#7.
Pi Squared and Its Square Root. 27½” x 33¼”. 1970–75. SIW#48, SI#83.
Point Collineation in the Triangle (Euler, 1707–1783). 33¼” x 33”. 1966. SIW#49, SI#28.
Polar Line of a Point and Circle (Apollonius, 3rd c BC). 24” x 32½”. 1966. SIW#50, SI#38.
Polyhedron Edges + Faces = Vertices å 2 (Euler, 1701–1783). 28” x 22”. ca. 1967.
Polyhedron Formula (Euler). 25” x 31”. 1966. SIW#51, SI#39.
Problem of Delos (Meneachmus). 23¾” x 23¾”. 1968. CJHP.
Problem of Delos II. 45” x 25”. 1970.
Problem of Delos Constructed from a Solution by Isaac Newton (Arithmetica Universalis). 39¼” x 33”. 1970. SIW#52, SI#56.
Projections of Aligned Triangles (Desargues, 1593–1662). 33” x 33”. ca. 1969. CJHP.
Proof of the Orbit as an Ellipse (Kepler, 1571–1630). ca. 1
967.
Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (Euclid, 4th c BC). 49¼” x 49¼”. 1965. SIW#53, SI#2.
Reciprocation of Lines and Points (Pappus, 3rd c BC). 31¾” x 25¼”. 1965. SIW#54, SI#6.
Rectangles of Equal Area (Pythagoras). 48¾” x 34¾”. 1969. SIW#55, SI#48.
Relativity of Time and Space (Einstein, 1879–1955). 1966. 48” x 48”. CJHP.
Right Triangle, Golden Rectangle, and Pythagorean Star. 37¾” x 47¾” 1972. CJHP.
Rotated Triangle and Reflexions. 24¼” x 30¼”. 1970. SIW#56, SI#73.
Seventeen Sides—Gauss. 49” x 25”. 1969. SIW#80, SI#70.
Similar Triangles (Thales, 7th c BC). 16” x 24½”. 1966. CJHP.
Simple Equation (Descartes). 37¼” x 25½”. 1966. SIW#57, SI#36.
Square Divided by Conic Rectangles. 33” x 33”. CJHP.
Squared Circle. 47¾” x 48”. 1969. CJHP.
Squared Circle. 52¼” x 52¼”. 1968. SIW#64, SI#52.
Squared Circle. 48” x 48”. 1969.
Squared Lunes (Hippocrates of Chios). 15” x 24½”. 1968. SIW#65, SI#67.
Squared Lunes (Hippocrates of Chios). 26” x 25”. ca. 1965. SIW#66, SI#68.
Squared Rectangle and Euler Line. 25½” x 23½”. 1972. SIW#67, SI#94.
Square Root of Pi. 25” x 25”. 1970–75. SIW#59, SI#89.
Square Root of Pi. 33” x 33”. 1970–75. SIW#60, SI#100.
Square Root of Pi = 0.0001. 25” x 25”. 1972. SIW#58, SI#52.
Square Root of Two (Descartes, 1596–1650). 21½” x 33½”. 1965. SIW#61, SI#19.
Square Root of x. 48” x 48”. n.d.
Square Roots of One, Two, and Three. 36” x 23½”. 1969. SIW#62, SI#66.
Square Roots to 16 (Theodorus of Cyrene). 42½” x 33”. 1967. SIW#63, SI#45.
Squares of a 3-4-5 Triangle in Scalene Perspective (Durer, 1471–1528). 32¼” x 25½”. 1965. SIW#70, SI#8.
Squares of 1, 2, 3, 4, and Square Roots to 8. 25” x 25”. 1970–75. SIW#68, SI#97.
Squares of 2, 4, 16 from Square Root of x. 48” x 48”. 1972. SIW#69, SI#88.
Squares of the 3-4-5 Triangle (Pythagorus, 6th c BC). ca. 1967.
Star Construction. 20½” x 23¾”. 1970–75. SIW#71, SI#103.
Symedians (Lemoine, 1840–1912). ca. 1967.
Transcendental Curve (Wallis). 12” x 23½”. 1966. CJHP.
Transversals (Ceva, 1647–1734). 20” x 25”. 1966. SIW#72, SI#31.
Transversals (Menelaus, 1st c BC). 24” x 21”. ca. 1967.
Triangle and Lune of Equal Area (Hippocrates, 5th c BC). 24” x 24”. ca. 1967.
Velocities and Right Triangles (Galileo). 49” x 24¾”. 1972. SIW#73, SI#96.
Velocity on Inclined Planes (Galileo, 1564–1642). 49½” x 33”. 1966. SIW#74, SI#42.
EXHIBITIONS
Schematic Paintings Deriving from Axioms and Theorems of Geometry, from Pythagorus to Apollonius of Perga, and from Desargues and Kepler to the Twentieth Century. Glezer Gallery. New York, 1967.
Squaring the Circle. Museum of Art, Science, and Industry. Park Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn., 1970.
IBM Gallery. Yorktown Heights, N.Y., 1975.
Theorems in Color. Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1980.
COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN CROCKETT JOHNSON AND RUTH KRAUSS
Krauss, Ruth. The Carrot Seed. Illus. by Crockett Johnson. New York: Harper, 1945. Adapted for an audio version, ca. 1950.
Krauss, Ruth. How to Make an Earthquake. Illus. by Crockett Johnson. New York: Harper, 1954.
Krauss, Ruth, and Crockett Johnson. Is This You? Illus. by Crockett Johnson. New York: Scott, 1955.
Krauss, Ruth. The Happy Egg. Illus. by Crockett Johnson. New York: Scholastic, 1967.
WORKS BY RUTH KRAUSS
BOOKS
A Good Man and His Good Wife. Illus. Ad Reinhardt. New York: Harper, 1944.
The Great Duffy. Illus. Mischa Richter. New York: Harper, 1946.
The Growing Story. Illus. Phyllis Rowand. New York: Harper, 1947.
Bears. Illus. Phyllis Rowand. New York: Harper, 1948.
The Happy Day. Illus. Marc Simont. New York: Harper, 1949.
The Big World and the Little House. Illus. Marc Simont. New York: Schuman, 1949.
The Backward Day. Illus. Marc Simont. New York: Harper, 1950.
I Can Fly. Illus. Mary Blair. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950.
The Bundle Book. Illus. Helen Stone. New York: Harper, 1951.
A Hole Is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper, 1952.
A Very Special House. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper, 1953.
I’ll Be You and You Be Me. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper, 1954.
Charlotte and the White Horse. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper, 1955.
I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper, 1956.
Monkey Day. Illus. Phyllis Rowand. New York: Harper, 1957.
The Birthday Party. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper, 1957.
Somebody Else’s Nut Tree, and Other Tales from Children. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper, 1958.
A Moon or a Button: A Collection of First Picture Ideas. Illus. Remy Charlip. New York: Harper, 1959.
Open House for Butterflies. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper, 1960.
Mama, I Wish I Was Snow; Child You’d Be Very Cold. Illus. Ellen Raskin. New York: Atheneum, 1962.
A Bouquet of Littles. Illus. Jane Flora. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
The Little King, the Little Queen, the Little Monster, and Other Stories You Can Make Up
Yourself. New York: Scholastic, 1964.
Eyes, Nose, Fingers, Toes. Illus. Elizabeth Schneider. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.
The Cantilever Rainbow. Illus. Antonio Frasconi. New York: Pantheon, 1965.
What a Fine Day for … Illus. Remy Charlip. New York: Parents’ Magazine Press, 1967.
This Thumbprint. Illus. Ruth Krauss. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.
There‘s a Little Ambiguity over There among the Bluebells and Other Theater Poems. New York: Something Else, 1968.
If Only. Eugene, Ore.: Toad, 1969.
I Write It. Illus. Mary Chalmers. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
Under Twenty. Illus. Ruth Krauss. Eugene, Ore.: Toad, 1970.
Everything under a Mushroom. Illus. Margot Tomes. New York: Scholastic, 1973.
This Breast Gothic. Illus. Ruth Krauss. Lenox, Mass.: Bookstore, 1973.
Little Boat Lighter Than a Cork. Illus. Ester Gilman. Weston, Conn.: Magic Circle, 1976.
Under Thirteen. Lenox, Mass.: Bookstore, 1976.
When I Walk I Change the Earth. Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck, 1978.
Somebody Spilled the Sky. Illus. Eleanor Hazard. New York: Greenwillow, 1979.
Minestrone. New York: Greenwillow, 1981.
Re-Examination of Freedom. West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste, 1981.
Big and Little. Illus. Mary Szilagyi. New York: Scholastic, 1987.
RE-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
A Good Man and His Good Wife. Illus. Marc Simont. New York: Harper and Row, 1962.
I Can Fly. Illus. Jan Brett. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.
You’re Just What I Need. Illus. Julia Noonan. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Originally published as The Bundle Book.
Goodnight Goodnight Sleepyhead. Illus. Jane Dyer. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Originally published as Eyes Nose Fingers Toes.
Bears. Illus. Maurice Sendak. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
The Growing Story. Illus. Helen Oxenbury. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
And I Love You. Illus. Steven Kellogg. New York: Orchard Books, 2010. Originally published as Big and Little.
PLAYS
This list is incomplete, and different groups of short plays were performed under the same title.
A Beautiful Day. Directed by Remy Charlip. Presented
in four versions as part of the Pocket Follies. Pocket Theatre, New York City. Jun. 1963. Fifth version, directed by Remy Charlip, with music by Al Carmines. Judson Poets’ Theater, Judson Memorial Church, New York. Dec. 1965. Performed again at the Judson Poets Theatre. Jun. 1966. Repr. with Pineapple Play, There’s a Little Ambiguity over There among the Bluebells, and The 50,000 Dogwood Trees at Valley Forge, in Michael Benedikt, ed. Theatre Experiment: An Anthology of American Plays. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1968. 206–305. Repr. in Albert Poland and Bruce Mailman, The Off Off Broadway Book: The Plays, People, Theatre. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972. 25–26.
There’s a Little Ambiguity over There among the Bluebells, Pineapple Play, In a Bull’s Eye, and one other one-act play (possibly If Only). Hardware Poets Playhouse, New York. Apr. 1964. Radio adaptation by the Word Players. Directed by Baird Searles. WBAI, New York. 23 May 1970. A larger collection of poem-plays bearing this title, conceived and directed by Joseph Gifford, ran at the Boston University Theatre. Music by Max Lifchitz. Part 1 included “The Poet and the Ashcan,” “Seven Acts and Torch Song,” “Weather: Cloudy with O.I.C.T.,” “Practical Mother’s Guide,” “Sun Dance,” “Whom Does the Little One Favor,” “Everything Is Doubled Today,” “The Date,” “Winnie and Bill,” “Hitch-Hike,” “More!,” “If Only,” “French Omelette,” “Dante and the Poet,” “This Breast.” Part 2 included “The Universe,” “How to Write a Book,” “Double Killing,” “Young Man in Scanty Contemplation Clad and Miss Diana Palmer,” “Suicide,” “It’ – - s-s-s-s-s LOVE,” “Quartet or Molly, Apollinaire and Friends,” “Hands Are to Hold,” “Le Poet and les Fleurs de France,” “The Poet and His Id,” “Yellow Umbrella,” “Dream,” “Re-Examination of Freedom.” Mar. 1973
38 Haikus. Caffe Cino, New York. Aug. 1964.
The Cantilever Rainbow. Spencer Memorial Church, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. Mar. 1965. Performed again at Caffe Cino at Café La Mama, New York. Apr. 1965. Also performed at Lee Strasburg’s Actor’s Studio. 1966.
Newsletters. Caffe Cino, New York. Mar. 1966.
If Only …: A Ruth Krauss Gala! Produced by the Westport Poetry Center, sponsored by the Westport Arts Council. WWAC Gallery, Town Hall, Westport, Conn. 12 Dec. 1969.
If I Were Freedom. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. 1976–77.
Re-Examination of Freedom. Boston University. 1976–77.